Re: Number of .qmail-qconfirm files

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Chris Wilkes wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 11:33:51AM -0500, Charlie Brady wrote:
> > 
> > qconfirm's actions depend on creating (potentially) multitudes of
> > ephemeral .qmail files in a user's home directory. Depending on the
> > file system and OS in use, this can lead to performance issues
> > whenever the home directory is searched - which is likely to be
> > fairly often.
> 
> What I do is run the following script manually every couple of days, ...

By which time the home directory may already have grown out of control...

> > This also precludes using qconfirm in a situation where the home
> > directory is read-only.
> 
> Didn't you have to have write access to setup the initial .qmail
> qconfirm script in the first place?

Well the BOFH needs to, yes. :-)

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Charlie